The Toxic Aftermath Of WWII Wrecks | The Black Tears Of The Sea
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An unsuspecting danger is lurking off our coasts and beneath our sea. In oceans around the world, thousands of sunken World War II vessels are lying on the seabed which contain an estimated 1.5 to 12 billion litres of oil. The question is: how long will the oil stay inside? Their fuel tanks are slowly rusting away, and actively leaking their contents into the environment. Experts have long warned of this threat, but have been either silenced or told the problem is too huge to be solved.
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What about the hundreds of millions that leaks out of big fuel companys pipelines in the world's oceans?
@rickroersma
Жыл бұрын
If they had to put ALL leak variants in one documentary, that would make for an incredibly long, and eventually quite boring documentary, wouldn't it? It's like commenting a Bentley cars documentary: "What about Aston Martin, they make luxury cars as well?"
@jamesjordan3868
Жыл бұрын
@@rickroersma yes it probably would. But would be more informative if comparing amounts already worldwide leaking into the oceans. And would definitely turn people's heads into something that should be stopped also. Just my thought anyway.
I really don't like shows that start off with a lie. Experts and non-experts have known about all of this for at least a decade. It's very important to amplify the story, but without hyperbole.
Between fuel oil , plastics and Japans Fucashima nuclear mishap we humans are doing a great job
ok so as i start to watch this.. how many of these vessels a) oil was burned upon sinking b) oil was released while sunk or ruptured and released upon hitting the sea floor c) have released already in the intervening decades. i do know that one of the things commonly looked for in search and rescues are oil slicks.. just some questions..now to watch.
@assassinatepsychoputin4151
Жыл бұрын
You left out decaying ships NOT all lose it right away
I’ve often wondered about this myself billions and billions of gallons of oil, heavy crude
I guess nobody thought about polluting the entire ocean as they kept sinking ships....a ship every six hours for 4 years wow
@mer2705
Жыл бұрын
War is hell
@majestictravler5717
Жыл бұрын
@@mer2705 War is B.S.
Don't worry about the wastes and toxics nature will clean it in about 1 million years all will be back to normal. No worries.
Interest rates up living costs up world war around the corner.
@the7thArk
Жыл бұрын
Seeing as China is the main threat. Cut off their oil and then drop these in there makeshift islands. They'll have their oil
I think mercury would be a better focus for this topic.
I swear all the what about this or that instead of let’s do things differently will end up killing us all.
Marine fuel oil
If they want to have a more accurate estimate of how much fuel was on a ship, they should simply follow the money. Somebody had to have paid for that oil and therefore somebody has to have a record of it. Probably there were records on the ship itself that were lost but only a fool would load up a ship with oil and let the only records of it remain on the ship. There have to be records of those financial transactions on land because I assume that, even if a ship sinks and all on it is lost, the person who sold them the oil has a record because they'd want to get payment from whatever company was operating that ship. This is the dawn of the military industrial complex so, presumably, they used to have to account for how much of our money they decided to waste killing people rather than helping them. Especially for military ships, there has to be quite the record of what amount of oil when to which ship.
a lot of very generous people watched this. They raised a lot of money
@majestictravler5717
Жыл бұрын
The money was for Unicef feeding kids in Ukraine. They don’t care about the oil leaking in ocean. Apparently it’s too big of a problem.
Just a thought: Coal powered ships would not be that problematic as long as we clean the emissions this could be an option. As oil seems to be running low. Germany alone has coal for 100-200 years
@Buskyb
Жыл бұрын
Oil is mostly used as lubricants for the engines not as fuel, you would still need to use oil in a coal powered steam engie
@victorjcano
Жыл бұрын
@@Buskyb very wrong, very heavy bunker oil was used to make steam for these ships
Just me or was that shit fine for 70 years till these guys started messing with it making it leak oil??
If anyone wants this cleaned up, talk to Japan and Germany. They started all of it.
Worry about nuclear waste
Here first
I'm not sure it's a real problem. All the ships are not going to leak at the same time. Therefore it will be drips and drabs here and there. Spread over many decades it won't be noticed apart from some of the bigger vessels.
@majestictravler5717
Жыл бұрын
Of course it’s a problem. It’s our worlds oceans….
@hayleyblackburn1983
Жыл бұрын
What would you describe as a "real problem"?. Just curious!!.
@benroden4830
Жыл бұрын
Hayley Blackburn in reply to your question a real problem is climate change or loss of biodiversity. Any one of these sunken ships could cause localised issues but the cost and indeed environmental damage caused by disturbing them probably is not worth it. If one is in a particularly sensitive spot then yes take action but you'd have to consider unexploded ordinance and the risk to the lives of those removing oil. The ships have been laying for the best part of a century and have been leaking oil slowly. Most will not cause an environmental disaster and in small amounts the environment can cope with oil. All the ships will not leak all their oil at the same time. This reminds me very much of the disaster documentaries from the 90s early naughties.
It’s LITERALLY do or die and yet we like “we don’t have money for it”. Leave the money save the planet wtf 😂
Wait…. There’s an ocean?!
run the program until you get the results need to justify your own work.. have you found the lost nuclear bombs that are lost in the oceans.
it's not a problem
There are so many causes that would deserve money instead of useless testing and masks. This seems a much bigger problem?
@Angel-tw3ko
Жыл бұрын
Wow, people perish for a lack of knowledge, and you are lacking in knowledge! Covid19 is still killing people!
Let the republikkkans fix this, you know they care about people. Well, not women.